Think AA to start for Gerson Bautista? He was pretty lights out in St. Lucie after the trade.

The one position where there's a bit of a logjam is the bullpen. Think definitively:

-Callahan, Rhame, Smith, Bashlor, Corey Taylor, Kevin McGowan, PJ Conlon, Adonis Uceta, apparently Molina are all guys in camp that are going to be in AAA or AA bullpens.

- I honestly don't even know who else we may have in total in the org at those levels, but guys like Gagnon, Ben Griset, Tim Peterson, Daniel Zamora, David Roseboom, Kyle Regneult, Kelly Secrest and Logan Taylor are presumably still here.

- Then from St. Lucie you have Bautista, Nogosek, Hanhold, Pobreyko all as sort of prospects who pitched well at that level last year. Plus org arms like Magliozzzi, McGeorge, Missigman, Palsha.

Think AA to start for Gerson Bautista? He was pretty lights out in St. Lucie after the trade.

Is it too early to get excited by Bautista and Bashlor?

Along with Guillorme, maybe the farm isn't totally barren after all.

I think the depth is actually decent. I think the big problem with the farm in the rankings this year is it was thin at the top, (lacking top 100 guys) as pretty much most of the guys who should have been in the top 5 didn't pitch last year.

If all are healthy and pitching, I think Peterson, Szapucki, and Kay will make an interesting trio of high end pitching prospects. And I think Oswalt is maybe right with them, and got under-rated this year.

Maybe I'm basing too much on one week of ST, and with too much optimism about guys who haven't pitched yet, but I think in a few months the Mets top 20 might look like:

Think AA to start for Gerson Bautista? He was pretty lights out in St. Lucie after the trade.

Is it too early to get excited by Bautista and Bashlor?

Along with Guillorme, maybe the farm isn't totally barren after all.

This is talking about 2 relievers and a likely middle infield utility guy.

Thats good to have, of course, but if those are the guys to be excited about, THATS why the farm doesn't rank too well.

I think the biggest tell is that when you are emptying out the farm in these early ST road games, we're throwing in guys like Pat Biondi (27 and can't hit in AA), LJ Mazzilli (ditto) and Jeremy Vasquez (a guy who had a nice year in the Appy League as a college draftee).

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